On 10/29/25 1:52 PM, Shenwei Wang wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
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>> Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v4 3/5] docs: admin-guide: gpio: rpmsg: gpio over
>> rpmsg bus
>>
>> Hi--
>>
>> On 10/29/25 12:56 PM, Shenwei Wang wrote:
>>> Describes the gpio rpmsg transport protocol over the rpmsg bus between
>>> the cores.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Shenwei Wang <[email protected]>
>>> ---
>>> Documentation/admin-guide/gpio/gpio-rpmsg.rst | 202 ++++++++++++++++++
>>> Documentation/admin-guide/gpio/index.rst | 1 +
>>> 2 files changed, 203 insertions(+)
>>> create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/gpio/gpio-rpmsg.rst
>>>
>>
>> I don't think this should be in admin-guide/gpio/.
>> How about in driver-api/gpio/?
>> That may not be perfect either, but transport protocols are not typically
>> admin
>> material AFAIK.
>>
>
> How about putting it in Documentation/staging directory?
> I saw both remoteproc.rst and rpmsg.rst are in the directory.
>
Yeah, maybe. That's sort of a last resort location for things
that don't have a better place.
>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/gpio/index.rst
>>> b/Documentation/admin-guide/gpio/index.rst
>>> index 712f379731cb..9c8f4441038a 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/gpio/index.rst
>>> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/gpio/index.rst
>>> @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ GPIO
>>>
>>> Character Device Userspace API <../../userspace-api/gpio/chardev>
>>> gpio-aggregator
>>> + gpio-rpmsg
>>> gpio-sim
>>> gpio-virtuser
>>> Obsolete APIs <obsolete>
>> If someone thinks that it should be in admin-guide/,please explain why.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> --
>> ~Randy
--
~Randy
